General Help Dialog

A general help dialog has two display areas: the topic tree and topic display area. The topic tree provides a scrollable list of help topics. The home topic title is always the first item. When a user chooses a title, an arrow (=>) marks the title and its help information is displayed in the topic display area. Figure 9-1 shows the topic tree and topic display area of a general help window. The current topic, "To select a palette", is displayed.

The general help dialog includes three dialog buttons: Backtrack, History, and Index. These commands are also available in the Help menus. For an overview of the Help dialogs and the graphical user interface, refer to the section, "Help User Interface".

Example

The following code segment creates a general help dialog (as a child of parent) using the convenience function. The dialog is left unmanaged--presumably it is managed elsewhere in the application when a help request is made.